The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-01-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK

ber shows decrease of $9, 100000.
The building improvements in Mime
apolis IN 1885 are valued at $11, ,474, ,4O2.
Secretary Lamar was married on We'd
nesday to Mrs. VIM. T. Holt, Of Macon,
Georgia.
Colorado's gold output for 1886, cx-
elusive Of the mint bars redeposited, was
81, ,444, ,7oe.2s.
BY the explosion of boiler in Geneva,
Pa, sawmlll, four men were killed and a
number injured.
Ten miners were killed on the 1st inst,
by the falling Of cage in the colliery at
Houghton, England.
A fire at Fargo, Dakota, on Monday,
destroyed Coleman's grocery store and the
Time block adjoining. Loss $342, 900; !;
insured. .....
Mayor-elect Hewitt and other munich
pal officers who we're elected in Novem
Der last, were formally installed on New
Years day.
Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis, has taken
the oath Of Office as governor Of Mime
sofa as preliminary step to contestlng
Governor McGills election.
Hibbs, the Lewiston, Idaho, postmaster,
who carried out wholesale system of
swindling by means of bogus postal cards,
has finally been convicted.
Thirty miners were imprisoned by a
colliery explosion at Mons, Belgium, on
Tuesday Six of the men have been taken
out dead and it is feared all perished.
Saturday morning last was the coolest
known at Bismarck for thirteen years. The
tested instruments of the United States
signal office indicated temperature of
4O.9o below zero.
All the collieries in the Wilkesbarre,
Pa, region are idle except two. The clos
ing of the mines has thrown 5000 men
and boys at the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
mines out of employment.
The Reliance machine works of E. p.
Allis & Co., at Milwaukee, were partially
destroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss $780,
900; insured. Three hundred and fifty
men are thrown out of employment.
V. P. Snyder, deputy comptroller Of
the currency, has been appointed exam
iner of national banks at New York, Jer-
sey City and Brooklyn, IN place Of Serbia,
who has heretofore held the position.
The st. Paul carnival management has
decided to ask for cake of Ice from each
of the northwestern cities. They will bc
suitably engraved and placed in the walls
Of the front entrance of the ice palace.
The British steamer Dragoman, from
Liverpool for Cardiff, collided with and
sunk the Duke of Connaught, off Birds
Eye The sunken ship had crew of
men and eighteen of these
were drowned.
On Friday, the 31st ult., fire broke out
IN the reserved enclosure at the Peoples
park, at Madrid, Spain. where the annual
fair was being held. Apanic ensued and
It is reported that several hundred persons
we're burned or crushed to death.
A serious accident occurred ON the |
Southern Pacific road, at Devils river,
Texas, on Saturday night. A construc-
ion train and regular freight collided, re-
,ulting in the death Of four men, and the
of a number of freight-laden
:ars.
At the Newberry building at Nanti-
;oke, Pennsylvania, scaffold upon which
i've men were at work gave way and the
nen were precibitated to the ground be-
ow. All we're terribly cut and bruised
md John Sewell, one of the carpenters,
las since died.
Frederick Witrock, Thomas Weaver and
William Haight, three of the Adams ex-
,ress robbers, were this week indicted at
It. Louis, plead guilty and received their
entences. Witrock and Haight were
,iven seven years each in the penitentlary,
nd Weaver five years.
The removal of the snow which fell in
he late storm in Germany, has revealed
n appalling loss Of life. Many travellers
we're overtaken by the storm. Fifty bodies
ave been found in Saxony, thirty in
'huringia and fifty in southern Germany.
t is estimated that the total loss Of life
gill be nearly 800.
An explosion Of gas occurred in the
barracks, at Portsmouth, Eng
and, doing considerable damage. Four
nen were killed outright. Others are
till buried in the debris and it is not
;nown whether they are alive or not. The
lumber of injured as far as known is
hirteen, and some Of these, it is feared,
re fatally hurt.
Commissioner Coleman has written a